My friend Brian decided that he wants to build his own arcade cabinet. He’s been poking around on Craigslist for a couple of weeks trying to find a decent shell to rebuild. He finally found one that he liked, so...
Read the post →I think I’ve had the arcade cabinet up and running for a couple of years now, and that has given me plenty of time to kick the tires. I’m very, very happy with how the project turned out. Everyone who...
Read the post →The physical aspects of this upgrade project have been finished for quite a while now. This write up has just been on hold waiting for me to borrow a better camera than the one in my old Samsung Galaxy S...
Read the post →It has been about two weeks since I hung the new television on the wall behind the arcade table. Most of what I’ve done since then is set up some scripts to automate the resolution and screen orientation settings, and...
Read the post →I’m very happy with the cocktail cabinet that we built. It was a lot of fun to build and it is even more fun to play!
Read the post →I’m in the middle of my cabinet upgrade and I’m modifying all sorts of configurations and settings. The work is going slow. I can’t help wasting time playing games every time I get another emulator set up to run on...
Read the post →For a long time now, I’ve been thinking that the wall behind my arcade cabinet is rather bare. At first I thought I should find some sort of retro, video game-related painting or poster or something. More recently, though, I’ve...
Read the post →My arcade cabinet recently survived a 950-mile road trip, on a moving truck, from Georgia to Texas. I’m happy to say that it survived mostly intact, with only a few minor cosmetic issues.
Read the post →I’ve been out of town for most of the last four months. One of the first things I did after “docking” my laptop was fire up the arcade cabinet. It booted right up and I was very happy and relieved...
Read the post →Our cocktail arcade cabinet build is finally completed. I’m very pleased with how everything came together. The quality of the cabinet ended up exceeding my expectations in every way I can think of. We learned many useful things along the...
Read the post →I still have two or three blog entries to write to bring us to the end of the cocktail cabinet build but in reality we are actually just a few cosmetic tweaks and a bit of assembly away from a...
Read the post →We were thinking that routing the holes for the joysticks was going to be one of the hardest steps. It actually ended up being easier and faster than we ever expected.
Read the post →Cutting the slots for the t-molding went quite well. We just had to make a few test cuts with our slot cutting bit in a scrap piece of board to get the slot centered and then we were able to...
Read the post →We finished up our fourth, and longest, day of arcade cabinet construction. We also made significantly less progress than on any of our previous days. Plexiglas is a bit harder to work with than we expected…
Read the post →I feel like we made huge progress in the couple hours we spent with the jigsaw on our second day working on the cabinet. It is really starting to take the shape of the finished product now!
Read the post →After quite a few months we are finally past the planning stage and starting to build something. I am very happy with the progress we are making so far.
Read the post →I have wanted to build an arcade cabinet for a very long time. I finally decided to stop thinking about doing it and actually do it!
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